2025 Annual Conference

When: March 13th-15th, 2025

Host: The UAA Anthropology Department

Venue: University of Alaska Anchorage campus

The 2025 annual meetings will be held in Anchorage, Alaska March 13 through the 15 on the
University of Alaska Anchorage campus. March 12 is reserved for workshops and training
opportunities that will be held in the Beatrice McDonald Hall. March 13-15 will include
presentations, the banquet and awards (Friday, March 14), the luncheon (March 15), and the
business meeting (March 16). Presentations, posters, and the business meeting will be in the
Ramsuson Hall on the west side of campus and the book sales, market sales, luncheon, and
banquet will be in the Cuddy Center, adjacent to the Rasmuson Hall.

Link to campus map: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/map/index.cshtml

Parking on campus will be free. There is parking adjacent to the Beatrice McDonald and
Rasmuson Halls.

Hotels
Twenty rooms each in the Aloft Anchorage (169 USD per night) and SpringHill Suites
Anchorage Midtown (179 USD per night) have been set aside for people attending the meeting
between the evening of March 11 through the evening of March 15. The Aloft Anchorage is a
new hotel on the Corner of 36 th Avenue and C Street. The Springhill Suites in Midtown is
nearby on 36 th Avenue and A street. The university is roughly two miles from either hotel east on
36 th Avenue. You can reserve your room at the link below:

Book your group rate for Alaska Anthropological Association Meeting 2025

Speakers
Two speakers have accepted an invitation to be our guests at the meetings. Dr. Rudy Reimer
(Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC) is a member of the
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw/Squamish Nation, and works primarily on the west coast of British
Columbia adjacent to the Salish Sea, and also has research interests in Plateau and western
Subarctic regions. His technical specialty is geoarchaeology and archaeometry but the public
probably knows him best as the host for Wild Archaeology which focuses on the First Nations
people of Canada through investigations by Indigenous archaeologists. Dr. Reimer will be our
banquet speaker Friday evening.

Dr. Julia Christensen (Department of Geography and Planning, Queens University, Kinston,
ON) is from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and notes it is “my home, but it is not my
homeland.” Her upbringing in Yellowknife contributed to her interest in homes and
homelessness in northern and Indigenous communities. She is also interested in the value of
arts, storytelling, and creative writing in health. She is presently the Project Director for At
Home in the North, a consortium of university researchers, Indigenous, and northern community
governments and organizations developing solutions and tools to deal with housing crises in the
north. Dr. Christensen will be the luncheon speaker Saturday. Both speakers will also present a
public talk at a place and time to be determined.

Symposia
Please send your abstract of proposed symposia by October 5th . If you have a workshop
idea, a training session, or an interest group meeting, please also send those in early so we can
schedule rooms to accommodate you the Wednesday before the meetings begin.

The Alaska Consortium of Zooarchaeologists will host a workshop on sea mammal bone
identification with a concentration on seals, sea lion and walrus bone. Dr. Christyanne
Darwent (University of California, Davis) will be the instructor. Registration is $40 (students are
free). You can pay when you register for the meetings or at the workshop. If you register at the
workshop, please bring cash or check. They would prefer you register early however, so they
have an idea of how many to expect and so enough teaching materials are available for
everybody.

Submit a Session Abstract (deadline October 5th, 2024)

Event registration and the call for individual paper and poster submissions will open in early October. Abstracts for individual presentations will be due in early December.